Sunday, May 5, 2013

Final Refection

 

             My name is Kimberly Hatch and I am a character education teacher. I teach second graders, I am presently in my first year of teaching character educational classes to my students. Today my lesson will focus on the importance of my students being able to learn at an early age in their lives about building their goals and setting their self-esteem high in life. At the beginning of the class I would try my best with focusing in the 9 teaching methods of teaching styles. For instance, I would ask my students what does the words goal and self- esteem means. I would have the students to Skype with other students across the world as Ms. Cassidy did with her first grade class on what the words goal and self- esteem means in a more global matter. I would use equality sticks by entering the student’s names into my smart board to access the student’s answers for their Skype and research for checking for understanding. After checking how well my students understand the importance of goal setting and developing high self-esteem mean. I will instruct to my students how goals are something in their lives that they desire or want to achieve or accomplish. Self- esteem is all about having the inner belief that they can accomplish their goals.  Then I would have my students to make a blog about goal setting and building self-esteem.   The students will have to present their research by Skyping with other students their age on the Border States around them.  Now I hope this activity will be exciting to the students.

        Then within my instructional guidance, I will move my attention on my visual tools that I will be utilizing throughout my teaching. The main tools that my students and I will use are computers and laptops to demonstrate how effective computer base teaching can truly be.   First, I would stand in front of my classroom and demonstrate to the student on conveying the usage of blogging. I would carefully use my blogging to build the platform for entirety of success for my students to accomplish their goals and have profound solid self- esteem. The base of my activity will use about six different blogs on others individuals their same age view or defining goals and self- esteem. Next, the students must be able to build their own web page demonstrating their own ideas of self and goal settings. My final visual demonstration will be show cased at a PTA night for my second grade students.  My parents will also be involved in my entire class activities. As a teacher, I will reinforce to my students on how important it is for them to embrace the new way of teaching by utilizing technology to the fullest.  From this activity my student’s would have built their way of  achieving and accomplishing their goals and building their self- esteem by developing a more understanding and love for technology learning. Also, from this assignment my student’s would not use a single sheet of paper. All of this assignment is based totally on the use of technology.
 
       My students will grasp the understanding that even their goals can be accomplish symbolically as the celebrities' goals were accomplish and achieved. I will end my instructional time with my student's by saying my motto "Determination Today Lead To Success Tomorrow"!
    
     Finally, one can easily understand and see how important it is for our students to learn about goals setting and developing great self- esteem from the totally usage of technology. My teaching strategies and methods, usage of tools, my student's learning process and my classroom itself gave my students the appropriate learning environment that they need throughout this classroom assignment and their lives.
 
  A few more words.. I truly enjoyed learning about the importance of technology within the classroom throughout this class.
                                                              


C4K Comments

C4K Meg's 4/28
 It sounds like you had a wonderful Easter. I would have to say that hunting for the eggs has always been one of my favorites, especially if I found the golden egg!

C4K leah's 4/21
Those are some very informative facts about Nebraska. I think your state would be interesting to visit, and The description of the zoo definitely was a perk in my opinion!

C4K Carl's 4/14
Hi, my name is Carl. I am 13 years old. I am in 8th grade. I live in Iowa USA for 13 years. I enjoy playing basketball. My favorite subject is science. I like to play basketball or go into the woods for my free time. I have one dog and cat. I have three cows. I want to be a vet.

My Comment 4/14
Hey Carl, you sound like you have a great plan ahead. Stay on track and focus on things that are important for you to achieve and succeed at your goal in becoming a Vet.

4/7
Have you ever wondered where the rubain sand which was made? Where the emergency number, 911 was invented? In my home state, Nebraska! That’s not all this wonderful state has to offer, it’s not just a bunch of cornfields!
Right in the middle of the United States lays Nebraska. Nebraska’s Capitol is Lincoln, the state flower is The Goldenrod. The state tree is cottonwood, the state insect is a honey bee!Maybe some of you love chickens, if you want to go to the world’s largest chicken show, come to Nebraska, where the world’s largest chicken show takes place! Oh, and be the way when you celebrate Arbor Day think of Nebraska, because that’s where Arbor Day was born! If your interested in under ground lakes and would like to visit the largest one, come to Nebraska, where the largest underground lake is! Are you into fossils? Do you like prehistoric life? If you are come to Nebraska! We have the largest mammoth fossil ever found! If you love zoos come to Nebraska! In Omaha’s Henrey Doorly Zoo, the 2nd best zoo in the nation, we have the largest indoor desert and indoor rain forest! Speaking of habitats, Nebraska has the largest man made forest!
That’s just some of the amazing facts in Nebraska, there’s to many to name! But when you eat soybeans, think of Nebraska,where the most of world’s soybeans are grown.
I have told you about my splendid state, where do you live? What’s it like? Do you like it there? What are some of the attractions or interesting facts?

My comment 4/7
Those are some very informative facts about Nebraska. I think your state would be interesting to visit, and The description of the zoo definitely was a perk in my opinion!

Saturday, May 4, 2013

Project 13




Project 13 was interesting to complete.  One of the tools we used was Shared Google Documents in Google Drive. Other forms of communication were also effective through Facebook (Google chat, text, and personal messages).We tried to use other resources like; Google hang out and Skype. These resources were ineffective for us to use as a group, because we had some problems. Once we were able to collaborate with each other to complete this assignment it was more effective.